Author: Gothic architecture
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Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Shall Gothic architecture be denied fair play? Thoughts suggested by reading a pamphlet entitled 'Remarks on a national style, in reference to the proposed Foreign office'.
Author: Gothic architecture
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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The Battle of the Styles
Author: Bernard Porter
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441174737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in London, starting with the Foreign and War Offices. The government offices competition came at what was probably - looking back on it - the zenith of Britain's confidence as a nation and international power. One would expect the mid-Victorians to have felt, firstly, pride in their current national situation; and secondly, the urge to commemorate this in the most important national building to be projected in twenty years. Porter uses the debates surrounding the building of these important new monuments to interrogate the very fabric of British society, culture and nation building. The discussion on so many issues - religion, nationality, empire, history, modernism, truth, morality, gender - quite apart from considerations of 'pure' aesthetics, offers an unusual, perhaps even unique, insight into the relationship between these matters and the 'culture' of the time.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441174737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This title explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday. In 1855 it was decided to build a new block of government offices in London, starting with the Foreign and War Offices. The government offices competition came at what was probably - looking back on it - the zenith of Britain's confidence as a nation and international power. One would expect the mid-Victorians to have felt, firstly, pride in their current national situation; and secondly, the urge to commemorate this in the most important national building to be projected in twenty years. Porter uses the debates surrounding the building of these important new monuments to interrogate the very fabric of British society, culture and nation building. The discussion on so many issues - religion, nationality, empire, history, modernism, truth, morality, gender - quite apart from considerations of 'pure' aesthetics, offers an unusual, perhaps even unique, insight into the relationship between these matters and the 'culture' of the time.
A Classified Catalogue of the Works on Architecture and the Allied Arts in the Principal Libraries of Manchester and Salford, with Alphabetical Author List and Subject Index
Author: Manchester (England). Joint Architectural Committee
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Catalogue of the art library, South Kensington museum
Author: sir John Charles Robinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Publishers' Circular
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: ohne Autor
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846048313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846048313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.